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• TITLE: Analysis on the Differences of Pre-School Education Development in Western China from the Perspective of Balanced Urban and Rural Areas Development —Taking Chongqing City as an Example

  AUTHORS: Yaoyang Han, Youlong Zhang, Xiaoping Yang

  KEYWORDS: Preschool Education, Differences between Urban and Rural Areas, Balance the Development of Pre-School Education in Urban and Rural Areas

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Social Sciences, Vol.4 No.2, February 25, 2016

  ABSTRACT: Chongqing city is selected as a sample area. According to the relevant statistical data in 2009-2013, it analyzed the differences of pre-school education balanced development in urban and rural areas western China in three aspects of which were the studying opportunity, resource allocation and development of pre-school children. It is found that there are still existing problems such as the unfair studying opportunity, the unequal resource allocation and the inequity development of pre-school children, and it can be attributed to unbalanced economic development in urban and rural areas, unbalanced distribution of education resources and the lack of supervision system of preschool education quality in rural areas. In order to promote balanced development of pre-school education, and narrow the gap between urban and rural areas, it is suggested that we must strengthen government’s role to integrate the development between urban and rural areas, to increase financial input for preschool education and give priority to remote poor rural areas in western China, to balance the distribution of high-quality teachers, and to accelerate the mechanism and system construction of pre-school education.